Overview+of+Listening+Skills

**NOTE: This page needs updating!**

Note: there may be little to gain in “teaching” listening separately from speaking since one is usually consequent on the other.

Listening skills: • identifying and exploring language features in oral texts • interpreting and evaluating oral texts • developing an awareness of register and purpose • processing information from oral texts

developed through:

Interpersonal listening: • class discussions • listening games • group work • peer evaluation

Listening to texts: • listening comprehension • oral language studies • oral texts in research • responding to oral texts

